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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






2. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






3. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






4. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






5. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






6. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






7. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






8. A three-line stanza.






9. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






10. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






11. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






12. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






13. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






14. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






15. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






16. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






17. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






18. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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19. The selection of words in a literary work.






20. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






21. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






22. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






23. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






24. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






25. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






26. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






27. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






28. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






29. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






30. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






31. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






32. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






33. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






34. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






35. The person who 'tells' the story.






36. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






37. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






38. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






39. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






40. The organizational form of a literary work.






41. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






42. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






43. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






44. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






45. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






46. The time and place of a story or play.






47. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






48. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






49. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






50. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.